Human Rights Groups

A human rights group, or human rights organization, is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which advocates for human rights through identification of their violation, collecting incident data, its analysis and publication, promotion of public awareness while conducting institutional advocacy, and lobbying to halt these violations. Like other NGOs, human rights groups are defined in their characteristics by legal, including taxation, constraints under which they operate, namely:They are "non-governmental", meaning that they are established by private initiative, are free from governmental influence, and do not perform public functions; They have an aim that is nonprofit, meaning that if any profits are earned by the organisation, they are not distributed to its members but used in the pursuit of its objective; They do not use or promote violence or have clear connections with criminality; They have a formal existence with a statute and a democratic and representative structure, and normally, but not necessarily, enjoy legal personality under national law.